The gun most likely used by the Dale City teenager charged in the killings of a mother and son in his neighborhood was a family heirloom tucked away in the victims' house that had probably not been fired in a quarter-century, a family member said. #

A teenage neighborhood burglar broke into a Dale City home last week, shot and killed a former schoolmate he unexpectedly found asleep on the couch and then killed the teen resident's mother when she got home and tried to call police, Prince William County authorities said yesterday. #

Prince William County police yesterday went door-to-door in the Dale City neighborhood where a mother of four and her teenage son were found shot to death in their home last week, seeking information about a crime that they say remains a mystery. #

A federal judge in the District sentenced a 22-year-old college student to 16 months in prison today for stealing guns from a Virginia sporting goods store and then selling them to drug dealers, prosecutors said. #

PITTSBURGH -- Carol and John Moore listened in a Norfolk courtroom when one of the sailors who raped and killed their daughter explained, in chilling detail, how they did it. The Moores steeled themselves at another hearing when a sailor looked directly at them and apologized for his part in the group slaying. #

A Roanoke man described as the nation's most prominent neo-Nazi was indicted yesterday on charges that he used the Internet to threaten violence against a bank employee, a university professor, an African American mayor and the African American plaintiffs in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit. #

One after another, people began calling police yesterday, telling them a suspicious man was running through their neighborhoods in McLean and Arlington County. Their 911 calls led three Fairfax County police officers to a man suspected of robbing a bank minutes earlier, and when he disobeyed their commands to drop his gun, the officers shot and killed him, police said. #

One after another, people began calling police yesterday, telling them a suspicious man was running through their neighborhoods in McLean and Arlington County. Their 911 calls led three Fairfax County police officers to a man suspected of robbing a bank minutes earlier, and when he disobeyed their commands to drop his gun, the officers shot and killed him, police said. #

Four young Fairfax County men pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to distribute heroin as part of a ring operating in Centreville, and two of them admitted supplying the drugs that killed 19-year-old Alicia Lannes. #